When future teachers with no experience of teaching come to observe my classes, they always exclaim at the end, “I thought that teaching was hard but it’s so easy! I had no idea how easy it is!”

And I always think, “My dear friend, if only you knew that the hardest part is precisely making it look this effortless.”

It looks so easy only because there is a ton of preparation, a structure and a lot of hard work which ensure that everything flows into everything else and that students ask the questions I need them to ask exactly when I want them to. 

3 responses to “Effortless Teaching”

  1. xykademiqz Avatar

    I want to like this post a million times.

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  2. sheddingkhawatir Avatar

    Yes! At least future teachers will learn this eventually–I find convincing non-teachers of this a much bigger hurdle.

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